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To: jttmab who wrote (203133)	11/19/2006 9:11:13 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

I think this deserves special treatment.... Kissinger on Iraq: "The art of leadership will be to find a course that will protect our values, our interests and the possibility of some progress in the area without simply blindly following a strategy which _ however reasonable it was when adopted _ has failed to achieve the objectives that were defined in a timeframe that our political processes would support." freenewmexican.com Recall Kissinger and the "art of leadership" in dealing with Vietnam... Henry A. KISSINGER quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South VIETNAM if that evolved after a withdrawal of U.S. troops -- even as the war to drive back the communists dragged on with mounting deaths. President Richard M. Nixon's envoy told Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai: "If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina."... KISSINGER told Zhou that the United States respected its Hanoi enemy as a "permanent factor" and probably the "strongest entity" in the region. "And we have had no interest in destroying it or even defeating it," he insisted... washingtonpost.com